The Rev. Walter J. Arrington is celebrating 40 years as pastor of Peoples Baptist Church in Canton, Ohio.

If preaching is a joint conversation with the text, do those of us in the pew hold up our side of the conversation?

Pope Leo XIV says it is "not in my interest at all" to debate U.S. President Donald Trump about the war in Iran but that he ...

When the Rev. Dr. Kelly U. Farrow founded an institute to support Black preachers in 2019, she wasn’t just creating another training program. She was building a movement to sustain and evolve the ...

The Friday the calendar annually designates as Good offers some of the best preaching in the African American faith community. Representing the sayings of Jesus while dying on the cross of Calvary, it ...

Karl Barth’s theology grew out of the task of preaching, and he always kept that task in view. In a radio interview not long before his death, he noted, “My whole theology, you see, is fundamentally a ...

The word that keeps coming back is hunger. Scholars talk about it, but so do preachers and parishioners. The reason that preaching is enjoying a revival in churches where it was a dying art, say ...

The reports of preaching’s death have been greatly exaggerated. One of the conversations churning recently is that preaching is dead, or perhaps should be. There are folks online and in church and ...

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